Ticks on an Eel: Museum Specimen is a First of its Kind
Kaylin Chong, a graduate student in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, described the first known instance of ticks parasitizing a fish.
Amblyomma cajennense (Fabricius) sensu stricto (MCZ: IZ: 171040), dorsal (left) and ventral views. Scale bar in both images is 0.1 cm.
One of Kaylin's projects involves finding ticks attached to animals in MCZ collections and she was recently directed to an eel specimen in our ichthyology collection that was collected over 150 years ago. Read about why this is a notable find in entomology today, Ticks on an Eel: Museum Specimen is a First of its Kind.